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17 August 2004

Review of OA pricing models. David Stern, Open Access Journals: revenue beyond author charges. Stern offers a detailed review of OA pricing models and discusses alternatives to author payment models. "The major concern of the community should be maintaining a revenue stream to support the peer review process," he argues. (Source:the (sci-tech) Library Question) [Open Access News]
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Bangalore presentations on institutional repositories. The presentations from the INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories (Bangalore, India, July 27-29, 2004), are now online. [Open Access News]
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Academia's information sharing future. Grant Buckler, Open access: Academia's information sharing future, Information Highways, July/August 2004. A very good survey. Excerpt: "From the writer's viewpoint, though, academic publishing is quite different. Where journalists and novelists are paid for writing and many live on this income, academic journals pay neither the authors of the papers they publish nor their peers who review them....Meanwhile, the Internet removes the printing and distribution costs from the equation....The benefit to researchers is wider readership and more citations, which enhances their reputations. 'People go for what is easily available,' says Andrew Odlyzko, director of the Digital Technology Center at the University of Minnesota, 'and we now have evidence from various studies that papers which are readily available on the net tend to have wider readership.' " [Open Access News]
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